Biotech/Pharmaceuticals
All contributors in Biotech/Pharmaceuticals
In: Toxicology
By: Isaac M. McPhee
Certain snakes, scorpions, frogs and fish are well known for secreting deadly substances known as neurotoxins. What do these chemical actually do to humans? more...
Using Stem Cells for Cosmetics
By: D. Yvette Wohn
A bio technology firm in Korea has developed a method of obtaining protein from placenta stem cells to use in cosmetic products. more...
Animal Care and Use Committees
In: Bioethics
By: Kara Ceraolo
Who is looking out for the silent voices of research animals? The IACUC is one way in which the rights of lab animals are protected from within the animal laboratories. more...
Regenerating and Growing Limbs
By: Sylvie Roy
Extracellular Matrix helps a variety of patients regenerate tissue and limbs, possibly entire organs; military sees great possibilities. more...
In: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (general)
By: Dianne Rees
To understand how a cell works, you have to take it apart and put it back together. That's the thinking behind synthetic biology. more...
The Biological Basis of Memory
By: Dianne Rees
Scientists have speculated that memories leave traces in the form of biologically altered brain cells. Recent research provides support for the idea of a memory trace. more...
In: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (general)
By: Simon Davies
Sildenafil Citrate whose brand name is Viagra, is a very good example of the way the pharmaceutical industry is driven as much by luck as by design. more...
In: Agricultural Biotechnology
The President of the United States and the nation's leading car manufacturers expect biofuels to replace petroleum in the 21st century. more...
In: Agricultural Biotechnology
Ethanol has a supplemental role in the nation's fuel supply, but it is not the magic cornstalk remedy to those pump price blues. more...
In: Biotech/Pharmaceuticals (general)
By: Krista White
Genetic Engineering is a human-invented technique, right? Wrong. A simple garden bacteria, Agrobacteria first came up with the idea to make genetically modified foods. more...
